ringing

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ringing

  • /ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/
  • /ˈɹɪŋɡɪŋɡ/ Midlands, Northern England

Rhymes with -ɪŋɪŋ

noun ringings

  1. countable, uncountable The sound of something that rings.
  2. countable, uncountable The quality of being resonant.
  3. countable, uncountable A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.

    Similar: banding

  4. countable, uncountable The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.

adjective more ringing · most ringing

  1. Loud and clear. They declare ringing confirmation for their theories even in the face of feeble data.
  2. figuratively Made forcefully; powerful. In what must be a first for any White House official, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had to step forward and answer whether the president of the United States wants to kill members of Congress. In a ringing defense of American values and constitutional order, she responded to the question by sayin

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of ring

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: tintinnabulation, resonance, resonant, resounding, reverberance, reverberative, tinkling, tinkly, echoing, jingling, jingly, clinking, brilliant, sonorousness, bright, sonority

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noun quality of being resonant

Italianorisonanza
Românăsunător

noun technique used in the study of birds

Italianoanellamento

adj loud or clear

Deutschkraftvoll, klar

adj made forcefully; powerful

Españolrotundo

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@misc{ringing_2026,
  title = {ringing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ringing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}